WWA

Noun

watch (plural watches)

1. A portable or wearable timepiece.
   • Meronyms: watch face, watch receiver, watchspring, watch battery, watchstrap, watch strap, watchband
2. The act of guarding and observing someone or something.
   • shepherds keeping watch by night1667, John Milton, “Book XII”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […]; [a]nd by Robert Boulter […]; [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], →OCLC; republished...
3. A particular time period when guarding is kept.
   • The second watch of the night began at midnight.
4. A period of wakefulness between the two sleeps of a biphasic sleep pattern (the dead sleep or first sleep and morning sleep or second sleep): the first waking.
5. A person or group of people who guard.
   • The watch stopped the travelers at the city gates.
6. The post or office of a watchman; also, the place where a watchman is posted, or where a guard is kept.
   • He upbraids Iago, that he made him
     Brave me upon the watch.c. 1603–1604 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Othello, the Moore of Venice”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac...

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